Speckled posttraumatic hyperpigmentation by foreign bodies on the lower legs after welding [9]

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 790-792

  Richtig, Erika ^a   Leinweber, Bernd ^b   Ghanimi, Yassar ^b   Pölt, Peter ^b   DiStefani, Alessandro ^b   Hofmann Wellenhof, Rainer ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CHROMIUM; IRON; METAL; MOLYBDENUM; SILICON; VANADIUM;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BURNING SENSATION; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FOREIGN BODY; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LETTER; LICHEN PLANUS; LOWER LEG; MALE; POLARIZATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUNCH BIOPSY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN FIBROSIS; WELDING;

DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOREIGN BODIES; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LEG; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; WELDING;

EID: 33745253803     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.142.6.790     Document Type: Letter

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